OPINION: Declaration of Interdependence

This week Americans could learn how
fabulously a U.S. opinion about internationalism had shifted in three
swift years.

Less than three years ago the FORTUNE Survey found a bare 13% of
Americans in favor of U.S. participation in any kind of international
organization. In the current survey in the March issue that figure has
surged up to a decisive 68%. Only 12.7% of the polices voted for "no
alliances and as little as possible to do with other countries"; only
7.7% wanted to "depend only on separate alliances with certain
countries"; and only 11.5% who had no opinion. But the...